That tick, tick, ticking you hear is the March of the Impending Holidays. Before the gift-buying, family-visiting, eggnog-sipping chaos reaches a tipping point, take some quiet You time to read over Macworld’s weekly roundup of our biggest stories from the past week. This week, we’ll do a top 12 list—one for each day of Christmas. (Or, 1.5 for each day of Hannukah; your call.)

The 27th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards We call them the Eddys. Which is odd, because their name is Douglas. Surely, you’ll find something on our list of the 23 best products of the past year that would make a perfect gift for someone you love. And perhaps that someone is you. (We podcasted about the awards, too.)

Apple tops PCWorld reliability, satisfaction surveys It was nice of PCWorld’s readers to vote Apple products as the tops in the desktop, laptop, smartphone, and tablet categories, but now our colleagues across the hall want to know when we’re going to reciprocate by liveblogging Microsoft keynotes.

Gems for a Steal, Redux For a limited time only, you can pick up this bundle of eight Mac software titles for just $40—with six of those apps being official Mac Gems. The other two apps are fine as well, but they’re more like Mac Cubic Zirconia.

How Thunderbolt devices affect each other on a daisy chain Our lab daisy-chained together oodles of Thunderbolt devices so that you don’t have to. Before you start having SCSI-related flashbacks, check out our report. (Also, huge credit to Lab Director James Galbraith for the headline we used on our home page for this story, "Going off the rails on a daisy chain.")

Mac OS X screenshot secrets You think you know everything there is to know about screenshots, and then along comes this video tutorial with an incredible spacebar trick. No, not that one, a different one. Trust me.